Scripting News: Wednesday, January 28, 2026
"There is no advantage that I can discern for creating a new format that only works in Bluesky." I put that at the end of a post the other day and as they say in journalism, he buried the lede. "Only works in" means silo. And it always results in stagnation because big organizations suck at shipping new ideas. For that you need a lot of people with laptops and a net connection and lot sof spare time to be able to replace small pieces, and join them up to the network, try out new ideas. When you're in a silo the owners place severe limits on what you can do. If you think you found a benevolent one, the exception -- there is no such thing. You're waiting for a "some day" that will never come.#
An idea I read in this blog post is one I hadn't considered, is super important. AI is going to be part of programming forever. There's no way to go back. This has made StackExchange obsolete, because it basically aggregates everything that was there, and it was worth it because you can find things you never could find before, and it takes no time to search because it isn't really searching, it's gathered the knowledge and gives it back to you exactly as you asked for it. And when I write a piece of software using ChatGPT it presumably learns everything I learned, so it gets better and better, just like StackExchange used to, but (and here's the punchline) the knowledge is owned by a few companies, with no obligation to share what they learned. Very different from the old method, though I'm sure StackExchange wasn't obligated to share everything, the users would have found out immediately and they would have quick competition that were so obligated. (So StackExchange would change.) We get so mired in the question of should we do this -- well we're doing it, time to start looking at the next set of questions. #
DNS fix: pagepark.scripting.com now redirects to the GitHub repo for PagePark. Somehow I lost the pagepark.io domain, but I don't really want it, so it's kind of ok. But there are some broken links. I recall there was a nice site with menus and stuff that was built from the GitHub repo but archive.org isn't able to find it for some reason. Moral of the story, don't buy so many domain names thinking you're really clever. But of course I still do. Someday they'll all be gone, of course. Will they have a ceremony for the last domain to be turned off, kind of like the last Blockbuster was. Does anyone remember Blockbuster. #
Linkblog items for the day
Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura suggests his state join Canada. nydailynews.com
Google begins rolling out Chrome's "Auto Browse" AI agent today. arstechnica.com
Five Constitutional Amendments Trump is Ignoring in Minnesota. motherjones.com
NBA Power Rankings: Can the Pistons or Spurs catch the Thunder for top spot? espn.com
A Complete Visual Tour of the First WordPress Release. iterativewonders.com
Plan for ICE agents at 2026 Olympics causes outrage in Italy. npr.org
Five-year-old deported to Honduras despite being US citizen is latest child victim of Trump crackdown. theguardian.com
Moments of bravery and cowardice in the news coverage of Alex Pretti's assassination.. criticalread.substack.com
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